[nycbug-talk] Happy Halloween, here is some wacky Horror story

[Jesse Callaway]

Heh... li-fi
On Oct 31, 2013 5:48 PM, "Mark Saad" <mark.saad at ymail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 1:15 PM PDT Isaac (.ike) Levy wrote:
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> >On October 31, 2013 03:26:01 PM EDT, Charles Sprickman <spork at bway.net>
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> >> On Oct 31, 2013, at 3:13 PM, Mark Saad wrote:
> >> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Brian Coca <briancoca+nycbug at gmail.com>
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> >> Does this mean that I MUST blast death metal at max volume over the
> whole office for security reasons?
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> >Here's a different horror story, which a russian developer in our office
> showed us:
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> >http://www.vz.ru/news/2013/10/26/656816.html
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> >(I'd love for someone here who speaks/knows Russian, to validate this
> source isn't some sort of Russian version of The Onion or something...)
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> >Rough Translation (using Google translate):
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> >"Media: China has put in irons Russian spy-spammers"
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> >Petersburg sellers of electronics in a hurry terminated contracts with
> Chinese suppliers after the discovery of the party "spyware" - irons,
> kettles and phones that can send out viruses and spam Wi-Fi.
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> >All electronics have been equipped with a small chip, which, when you
> turn the device into the grid could easily be connected by over Wi-Fi to
> any unprotected computers within a radius of 200 meters.
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> >According to the director of the importing company Innocent Fedorov such
> a surprise from his colleagues from China, he did not expect, "This place
> is already proven, and it is strange that such a thing happened. This
> happened recently, something has to happen suddenly, and we began to
> understand, to find out what it was. "
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> >Discover the "spy" fake entrepreneurs helped the brokerage firm, transfer
> "Vesti.Ru" .
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> >Prior to sending equipment from China Russian experts confused weight of
> packages, which a few grams differ materially from those in the documents.
> Party stopped at the border, experts engaged in the study of electronics.
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> >It turned out that the embedded chips designed to send unwanted spam and
> computer viruses.
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> >CTO and Customs broker Gleb Pavlov explains: "You do not even notice that
> it sends something. Neither the system administrator will not notice the
> attack, because it did not occur outside of the enterprise, and not through
> the Web, but from within. "
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> >About 30 irons, kettles, phones and video recorders from a trial lot
> still had time to go back to their chain stores of St. Petersburg, and the
> question of how many of these electronics products to spyware chip, it is
> difficult to answer.
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> >It is also unknown whether the leak could multifunction machines in other
> regions of Russia.
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> Unreal but way more believable then the click bait I sent out ." Do I have
> to prepare for the Ultrasonic layer 3 transport for ipv6 on  OpenBSD or
> will it just work?l  ,  that sounds like bad science fiction , that Steven
> seigal , says to Tyra banks in "invasion of  mutant  puffy "!
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> To me It's like Someone telling you "we can solve your web server problems
> with java " sure maybe you could , and maybe my electric teapot has a
> hidden netbsd box spamming the world about cijalis , penus engirgemen and
> African riches .
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>  See neither sounds real and I say both are amusing works of  fiction and
> it's not even April .
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> So who is going to present "pf carp and ultrasonic Ethernet " at nycbsdcon
> ?
>
> Mark
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